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Light in the Sky - study. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2016.
This is a study that I painted as a way to explore a different take on representing light in the sky. I based it on some plein air sketches.
Having painted landscapes in Virginia for so long, I've become used to working with the hierarchy of ...

Hannah Color Study. 8x10 oil on linen. 2015
For the people who have signed up for my workshop on 24th March I will be doing a demonstration painting using a photograph of my dog Hannah. If you would like to paint along with me please feel free to click on the link below and download the image ...

Here's a link to a presentation I put together in preparation for a group demonstration on painting animal portraits. In the end this presentation proved to be too long to use in its entirety, but there's a lot of useful info in here and I don't want it to go to waste.
[This has since been rem...

Color chart for secondary and tertiary mixtures of phthalo blue, alizarin permanent, cad orange, cad yellow medium
Sometimes when preparing to start a painting I have to put more thought than usual into the selection of colors. I've just started a small figurative painting of a child ...